Increasing physics framerate

[thelusiv]

I thought about making the physics framerate user-configurable but that introduces usability problems. Users don't know what to set this value at, nor do they know the consequences of it. Also, what value do we let them adjust, do we allow them to specify the number of physics ticks per second? Or should we give them a "physics quality" setting like Low (250/sec == 0.004), Medium (500/sec == 0.002), High (1000/sec == 0.001)? Again I foresee people setting their physics quality to "Low" on slow machines, and then posting bugs that are side effects of this, or just thinking that our physics simulation sucks and dumping the game. Then again, maybe that's better than just having to release it with this setting hard-coded at "Low".